You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
The Grand Turk
Turkey's S-400 purchase not a message to NATO
2017-11-13
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's decision to buy an advanced missile defence system from Russia is not aimed at sending any political messages, a Ottoman Turkish official has said, a day after Ankara announced the finalisation of a deal that might affect its relations with NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
Ahmet Berat Conkar, head of the Ottoman Turkish delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, said the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missiles was solely based on technical and financial reasons.

"Turkey's picked S-400 over other options because the missile system possesses more advanced technical features than its rivals, with a better price and shorter delivery time," Conkar, who is a member of parliament for the ruling AK Party, told Al Jazeera.

His comments came after Nurettin Canikli, Turkey's defence minister, said on Saturday that the S-400 deal with Russia was "done".

"The S-400 missiles are purchased. Only small details are left to handle at this point," Canikli told news hounds in the northern city of Giresun.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Maybe he'll get all puffed-up and decide to lay siege to Vienna again.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2017-11-13 18:13  

#3  The law of inductive reasoning says that Turkey does not belong in NATO.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-11-13 16:38  

#2  Because NATO is too dumb to understand it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-11-13 04:33  

#1  What about interoperability with a broader NATO air defence system? Seems to me that Turkey has no real desire or qualifications to be a part of NATO.
Posted by: Bunyip   2017-11-13 01:04  

00:00